Yesterday a local photographer friend emailed me this Craigslist Photographer Job Posting, and asking if this was a good prospect to pursue. Lets take a look at this ad and dissect it. My thoughts are in regular type, the ad is in bold.
Lets have some fun with these clowns, feel free to send them an email and say you can do it for $40, hehe. Email address is “job-xcgpj-1927599153@craigslist.org” without the quotes.
Freelance Photographer (Seattle)
We are looking for an amazing freelance photographer to conduct informal editorial shoots featuring local businesses in the Seattle Area for our online publication. This is a great opportunity for college students and photographers looking to publish photos on a nationally recognized forum.
A while back I shot this series of images for a local clothing designer and modeling agency. This was Hayley’s second time in front of the camera and I think she did an amazing job.
The designer left it up to me as far as how I wanted to shoot this. The studio cyc wall was beginning to look a bit faded and needed a fresh coat of paint, perhaps a dark gray might look nice. I took a piece of “Thunder Gray” seamless paper to the local HomeDepot and asked the paint department to match it with their groovy paint color analyzer. $30 later, I had a few gallons of inexpensive matte finish “Thunder Gray”.
Four days ago, last Monday, Tim and I photographed Madina Vadache’s Spring 2011 collection. The week before, we all met and had a short production meeting. We discussed which model we would like to use as well as the shoot location and the overall look for the catalog or lookbook images.
Madina also wanted a few editorial fashion images for the “splash page” of her new website. For the editorial images, we decided to use the lobby area of her condo building. The lookbook setting would be a corner of her design studio, a modern looking window with white blinds.
We can only show a few images, as the collection has not been released for public viewing.
Last week we sent out a few copies of the video to several intermediate and commercial photographers, as well as a local art director.
Today we received two new reviews of the “Creative Lighting for People Photography” lighting video. Additional reviews will be posted as soon as they arrive.
When we think of portrait lighting, the first lighting modifier that comes to mind is the softbox or octabox. While these two modifiers are very effective, Tim and I prefer to use variations of the octabox or perhaps the nylon panels.
The panels when used as we did in the video below, offer a very soft light quality for elderly subjects. Or, we may use the same panel setup for beauty lighting.
For the creative senior portrait, I might suggest the octabox ring light modification. This ring light modification looks great for fashion, musicians and editorial portraits as well.
The Zeroplusplus Photography Blog is about creative lighting techniques for the frugal photographer. Frugal does not mean cheap lighting, it means being resourceful with what you have to work with. Tim and I show you the lighting modifiers and techniques we use for our commercial projects. And we like to show lighting examples that we use everyday…modifiers and lighting not so obvious to the casual observer.
1) DIY Nylon Panel – soft and diffused lighting for $50
2) Bare Octabox – mimic the 10am or 2pm Sun
3) Grided Octabox w/ToughFrost Disc – removes the center hotspot
4) DIY Octabox Ring Light – ring light shadow without the harshness
Early on in our careers, Tim and I assisted many commercial photographers, and were very fortunate to learn a variety of lighting modifiers and lighting techniques. The “Creative Lighting for People Photography” video tutorial demonstrates the 50 most popular lighting techniques we use for our commercial photography.
Several people emailed us and asked “what is different about your video and modifiers”. OK, below is 6 minute clip discussing the nylon panel and 3 different octabox mods.
